Blogger To Hil: “Step Off Bitch”

Making the rounds these last few days have been reports of Sen. Hilary Clinton’s (D-NY) not-so-complimentary words for the gaming industry. From The Australian:

“Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them,” the US senator and former first lady said.
“This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it’s OK to diss people because they are a woman, they’re a different colour or they’re from a different place.”

Did she just say “diss”? Anyway, needless to say, geeks aren’t happy. Especially one Matt Paprocki, a blogcritic.org contributor who got his panties in such a bunch that he wrote an online response to the good senator. Here’s how it begins:

A Letter to Senator Hilary Clinton on Video Game Violence: While browsing the internet yesterday, I stumbled across an article centering around a $90 million study you have proposed on the so-called “effects of video game violence.” Please realize what a huge waste of not only taxpayer’s dollars this is, but also how simple the answer is to all of this. It has nothing to do at all with the content of these rated video games, but everything to do with lackluster parenting.

He then added, “P.S., your husband totally cheated on you with a fat chick.”

Hilary hits out at games violence [The Australian]
A Letter to Senator Hilary Clinton on Video Game Violence [blogcritics.org]